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F5 BIG-IP DNS vs. Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 BIG-IP DNS
Score 9.2 out of 10
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F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager) secures DNS infrastructure.N/A
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their…N/A
Pricing
F5 BIG-IP DNSFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
F5 BIG-IP DNSFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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F5 BIG-IP DNSFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Small Businesses
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
F5 BIG-IP DNSFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(10 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 BIG-IP DNSFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
F5 BIG-IP DNS is well-suited for any organization looking to improve their Authoritative and Local DNS security and performance capabilities.
Rodolfo Nützmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rodolfo Nützmann
Technical Instructor and Consultant
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Fastly
Fastly has been the ideal CDN (Content Distribution Network) to solve and optimise the management of our content in our applications and portals; we have easily integrated its use, which has meant an increase in performance, a time savings in terms of management, and a saving of resources that we can use to make further improvements to improve our customers' web experience.
Rehan Kanuga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rehan Kanuga
Data Analyst
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Pros
F5
  • The easy of importing DNS records into the BIG-IP
  • The ease of searching and locating records
  • The speed of creating multiple records when you need to duplicate effort.
  • The DNS dashboards to see requests and data points.
Ray Burch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ray Burch
Sr. Security Engineer
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Fastly
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Cons
F5
  • More support documentation will be a nice to have.
  • I have not automated DNS deployments yet, but it would be nice to have ansible libraries for this module. (I have used ansible for many others).
Verified User
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Fastly
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 DNS is like DNS with out training wheels and data that can help you make real changes and improvements
Ray Burch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ray Burch
Sr. Security Engineer
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Fastly
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Return on Investment
F5
  • Protection against security threats using DNS as a vector.
  • Protection against security threats targeting DNS itself.
  • Provide top user experience to application clients, by directing their requests to where they will be treated with the best performance.
Rodolfo Nützmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rodolfo Nützmann
Technical Instructor and Consultant
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Fastly
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